Instructional Design Questionnaire

Dr. John Curry's looking for input from instructional designers.

Dr. Curry is an Assistant Professor in Educational Technology at Oklahoma State University. You may remember him from such posts as:

Essential Reading for Instructional Design?
and
How to Get an Instructional Design Education Without Paying Tuition


He's interested in the disconnect between academia and corporate design. He's got a short questionnaire on his blog and he's asked me to ask you to help out. Yeah, you!

Take the survey. It doesn't hurt at all: http://effectivedesign.org/blog/2009/10/13/instructional-designer-questionnaire/

Interviews on Instructional Design

Last night, Dr. John Curry interviewed me for his Introduction to Instructional Design class.

I was one of four instructional designers that John interviewed and the only non-degreed one in the bunch.

John asked each of us a series of questions: how we came to the instructional design field, what our current day-to-day jobs as instructional designers are like, what skills we feel are important for instructional designers, and what we feels the future of the field will be.

• Alan Young, Director of Curriculum Development at Brigham Young University-Idaho
• Jennifer Summerville, Ph.D, Associate Dean for the Distance and Weekend College for Collin College
• Andrew Teasdale, Ph.D, an instructional designer in the Clinical Guidance Organization for Humana Health Care

Each interview is about 30 minutes long.